Thursday, October 23, 2014

Time - a human paradox

Life is a paradox. What does one really need? The truth or just a single facet on the vantage point? If it the perception that matters then what is truth? Truth is neither an opinion nor a perception as people preach. Time is the only truth as everything revolves round that. At one moment we see one version of truth and interpret that as the only version. Later at a different moment the situation might present a all version of truth which we also believe. If truth is situational then what is permanent? "Time" in which case should be worshipped and treated as an uniformity. If time is so critical why is that we have the paradox of "think of the past to savor the present and plan the future". How can one be in three different parts of time at the same moment? In which case we need to "live the moment". How can one "live the moment" as time which is perpetual defines the outcome as we are here now by the actions that we have done in the past. Once we starting bothering only about the present, what will be our future which is so dependent on the NOW. If every moment is a paradox and decision making then how can one really be HAPPY?

Shakespeare's "to be or not to be" is pointing at "being" not doing/acting. This reminds me of VALMIKI Sundara Kanda కాలోహి దురతక్రమః. Nothing can bypass TIME. We are so confused in the due course that we fail to understand the "REALITY". The sole reality is that we have got to survive till the climax of a certain death. We die not by a chance but with a conscience which is why one should not fear the ultimate truth. But deep down inside we fear that as we do not completely understand it. Is this is the paradox I am contemplating?

Pushing all this aside, should I live by instinct? Should I not bother about RISK? Should I not bother about family?

Too many questions and all that I have is one answer - life is a compromise and a trade off. Involve yourself that helps in keeping yourself so busy to be oblivious to the truth. 

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